Labor: The Man Who Made The Most of Automation

Says Alfred Renton Bridges (every one calls
him Harry), for 30 years the controversial boss of West Coast dock
workers, in his Australian cockney accent: "If someone wants to
get me out of this job, the best way would be to call me a 'labor
statesman.' " Yet that, in effect, is what a lot of people who do
not want him out of his job are calling him nowadays. Examples:

> Says Eisenhower's Secretary of Labor James Mitchell, who now lives in
San Francisco: "Next only to John L.
Lewis, Bridges has done...